Honorable Quotes

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.

I urge you by all this is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but also that you act!

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side

An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me.

If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.

The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.

I drink for the honorable purpose of getting bagged.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace.

I think it's an honorable thing that Donald Trump is doing.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

If it is true, if it is beautiful, if it is honorable, if it is right, then claim it. Because it is from God. And you belong to God.

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to get away from the devil as soon and as fast as we can.

Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success.

Honor a good woman because she is virtuous and honorable.

For the most part, cops are decent and honorable, but that's how I know that there are bad cops, cops that you think you know so well.

Compromise is an honorable word.

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.

Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.

We believe that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, God, but I'm only a helper and a minister of his.

I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.

It is not the place that maketh the person,
but the person that maketh the place honorable.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

Cartooning is an honorable thing

It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.